Salesforce.com and the Site.com Content Management System – Part 1

There is a content management system feature of Salesforce.com that doesn’t get that much attention: Site.com

Site.com can be used to host public facing websites on the Salesforce.com platform. It is rather lightweight and not really intended for complex content management requirements.

Currently there are some limits. All non-Development editions are limited to 40GB of bandwidth every day, with between 500,000 and 1,000,000 daily views depending on the edition you are using. This actually covers quite a lot of small to medium publishing scenarios. If you think this could be too low for you then you should put some serious consideration into a higher end CMS product.

There are also no workflows for publishing, which is rather important to those who want to move the mechanics of publishing to the realm of the Business User.